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70 Stat. 936; 76 Stat. 597. 25 USC 677.
Mixed-blood members, payment.
Conditions.
PUBLIC LAW 91-403-SEPT. 18, 1970
[84 STAT.
soutlnvest quarter southwest quarter southwest quarter southwest quarter section 12, township 1 south, range 4 west, containing 2.5 acres, all in Uinta special base and meridian, Utah. The balance so calculated shall be increased by adding interest on the amounts that comprise the $920^112.74 from the end of the year in which each amount was originally used for the project to January 28, 1958, the date of the Court of Claims judgment, and interest from January 28, 1958, to the date of this Act on $920,112.74 adjusted by the deductions provided for in the foregoing provisions of this subsection. (b) With respect to operation and maintenance charges, the tribal funds originally involved amounted to $529,828.20. From that smn there shall be deducted the amount of $158,856.17, which represents a reimbursement of tribal operation and maintenance funds under a judgment of the United States Court of Claims for the portion of the operation and maintenance costs chargeable against non-Indian lands. I'rom the balance so calculated, there shall be deducted an amount equal to the operation and maintenance charges against irrigable land (determined according to the approved designation of 1964) which were collected from the proceeds of sales of land and other sources and deposited in the tribal accounts. The balance so calculated shall be increased by adding interest on the amounts that comprise the $529,828.20 from the end of the year in which each amount was originally used for the project to January 28, 1958, the date of the Court of Claims judgment, and interest on the amounts that comprise the balance calculated pursuant to the first three sentences of this subsection, from January 28, 1958, or the end of the year in which each amount was used for the project to the date of this Act. SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to reimburse Indians and former members of the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation terminated by the Act of August 27, 1954 (68 Stat. 868) who sold project lands that were nonirrigable (determined according to the approved designation of 1964) for the construction, operation, and maintenance charges which were collected from the proceeds of such sales. SEC. 8. Twenty-seven and (me hundred and sixty-two one-thousandths per centum (27.162.per centum) of the sum determined to be due the tribe under section 1 hereof shall be paid b} the Secretary of the Interior, notwithstanding any other provision of law, to the persons whose names appear on the roll of mixed-blood members that was prepared pursuant to section 8 of the Act of August 27, 1954, or to their heirs or legatees, under such rules as the Secretary may prescribe. All claims for payment by mixed-bloods shall be filed not later than three years from the date of this Act. Thereafter, all {'laims and the right to file the same shall be foreAer barred and the unclaimed shares shall revert to the I"te Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation. SEC. 4. No part of any of the funds appropriated in accordance with the provisions of this Act shall be subject to attorneys' fees. SEC. 5. Reimbursement of the Ute Indian Tribe, its member-s, or its former members, as provided in this Act shall be regarded as a gratuity, shall not be regarded as the settlement of a claim against the United States, shall not be recognized as the basis for any claim against the Ignited States, and shall not prejudice any litigation now pending. Approved September 18, 1970. <
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